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The Intersection of Opioids and Suicide: A Prevention Approach

25 October 2018

Webinar

The latest event from the National Prevention Week Webinar Series will take place on October 25, 2018, 2:00 – 3:30 p.m. EDT.

The discussion will explore the relationship between the opioid use, overdose and suicide, with the hope that it will create opportunities for those in the prevention field to implement more effective strategies.

Occupational Patterns in Unintentional and Undetermined Drug-Involved and Opioid-Involved Overdose Deaths

Scientific article

24 August 2018

Summary What is already known about this topic? A majority of the U.S. population participates in the workforce. A person’s job affects both physical and psychological well- being. The opioid epidemic negatively affects workers, work-...

Statistical Bulletin: Deaths Related to Drug Poisoning in England and Wales

News

This article presents data on the number of drug misuse deaths in England and Wales from 1993 onwards.

Effectiveness Bank Hot Topic. Naltrexone Treatment of Offenders: Ethics and Evidence

Book

17 August 2018

Opinion is sharply divided on the ethics and effectiveness of pressuring opioid-dependent offenders to take the opiate-blocker naltrexone. Especially sharp is the controversy over long-acting products not approved for medical use in the UK...

Naloxone in Homelessness Services

Scientific article

31 May 2018

With drug-related deaths at the highest number since comparable statistics began, why aren’t more homelessness services using naloxone to prevent overdose deaths?

Abuse-Deterrent Opioid Formulations

Scientific article

Abstract Abuse-deterrent opioid formulations have been suggested as one way to decrease the abuse, addiction, and overdose of orally prescribed opioids. Ten oral opioid formulations have received abuse-deterrent labeling by the U.S. Food...

Fatal and Non-Fatal Overdose among Opiate Users in South Wales

Scientific article

29 March 2018

A study published in the International Journal of Drug Policy, Fatal and Non-Fatal Overdose among Opiate Users in South Wales: A Qualitative Study of Peer Responses, explores the behaviour of witnesses to opiate overdoses. The research was...

A Randomized, Open Label Trial of Methadone Continuation versus Forced Withdrawal in a Combined US Prison and Jail: Findings at 12 Months Post-Release

Scientific article

1 March 2018

Research carried out in in North America has found that offering continued methadone maintenance to those entering the prison system can have positive outcomes.

Methadone Induction in Primary Care for Opioid Dependence: A Pragmatic Randomized Trial

Scientific article

22 November 2014

From France the first study to randomly allocate patients to start methadone maintenance either in primary care or at a specialist centre found primary care more attractive to patients and no less safe or effective at reducing street-opioid...

Heroin Uncertainties: Exploring Users’ Perceptions of Fentanyl-Adulterated and -Substituted ‘Heroin’

Scientific article

17 July 2017

Abstract Background The US is experiencing an unprecedented opioid overdose epidemic fostered in recent years by regional contamination of the heroin supply with the fentanyl family of synthetic opioids. Since 2011 opioid-related overdose...